Re: Many questions (mostly Network)
Mike Patterson wrote:
>
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> So my questions are:
> * Can I have two ne-2000 compatible cards in the same system?
You can stop other drivers from probing i/o ports and tell them which
port to use as well, so it doesn't have to be 2 ne2k's -- other cards
will do, too. Some ne2k's have to be initially set up using DOS
software, btw.
> * assuming the gateway can pump data extremely fast, will I be
> losing a ton of permformance by going from 10baseT to thin BNC?
Why? Thinwire is 10base2, still 10Mbps.
> In other words, should I switch my whole system to 10BaseT instead?
> (Downloads are VIA satellite... That can be fast.)
10baseT will be easier to upgrade to 100/1000baseT later on. I don't
think it matters in your case, but I may be wrong.
> 3) Ok, now let's say one of the "A Machine"s is a Linux box that uses PPP to > hook into a secure site (behind a firewall). Let's say (oh, for example)
> that everything behind the firewall is 15.19.*.*, and the machine is
> assigned an address for PPP that is in th 15.19 domain. What this machine
> would want to do is communicate with the PPP line for everything behind th
> firewall, and communicate with the fileserver/gateway for everything else
> --
> I assume requiring it to look like a diffrent IP number for each (remembe
> r,
> the Server/Gateway will be using masquerading). So the question is, how
> can I do this and ensure that people on other machines in the network can
> 't
> get to the 15.19 domain? Assume that I'm the only one that can log onto t
> he
> Linux System I just described... (whew!)
Well... sounds like a box with 2 network i/faces -- the fact that one of them
is a ppp link, not a 2nd network card doesn't make much difference.
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> 4) I can't for the life of me figure out what the startup files are defined
> as
> or where they are defined (say, .login and .startup.x11 from my old dec
> days)
Dot files (per-user config) are in ~ or its subdirectories, system-wide files
are in /etc and its subdirs. Is that what you're looking for?
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Dimitri
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